Student Portfolios

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Why Digital Portfolios?

24/7 access
promote metacognition
students curate, organize and expand content
potential global audience of readers & reviewers
pathway for students to explore their learning through documentation, reflection, questioning, feedback, self-monitoring and assessment, and goal-setting
"ePortfolios are much more than digital archives or collections of seemingly unconnected artifacts. ePortfolios provide a method for “learners to explore and reflect on their knowledge by asking critical questions about where and how their knowledge was derived and what to learn next . . . ePortfolios provide a lens for examining these questions and a means to put answers into practice.” (Light, Chen, Ittelson, 2012)
Why My Six Year Olds Have Digital Portfolios, Kathy Cassidy

Purpose:
Portfolios For and As Learning:

Portfolios for Learning (Positivist)
- often a short-term or capstone-style project
- assessed summatively
- showcase portfolio
- samples of students' best work
Portfolios as Learning (Constructivist)
- process-centered
- typically an extended timeframe
- assessed formatively
- student leverage to reflect, self-monitor and self-assessment

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Examples:

Grades 3-8
- My students just started working on their "portfolios" for our Student Led conferences. We have a long way to go on the portfolios and the pages they connect to, but it may be worth looking at their drafty drafts. Sample 1 & Sample 2.
- Multi year portfolio sample - http://atw2.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/

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